AI researcher clashed over warning people about AI's job impact

Beetlejuicw5 · x · 2026-11-05

An X exchange over AI's impact on jobs: an AI researcher argued people just want to be babied and lied to, and that failing to warn about the tech's impact is worse; the poster pushed back that he's obviously biased, and the researcher added that banning US data centers wouldn't help anyway since a Chinese model could achieve 80% of the same effect.

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